the 75-minute quilt
- Be delighted that two young, modern and stylish friends are having a baby. Happily plan a modern, stylish quilt.
- On the date designated for sewing the quilt, sleep all day instead.
- Give up and accept the fact I’ll just buy crap from their registry as their baby gift.
- At 11:15 am exactly, less than two hours before the shower, suddenly decide to make that quilt.
- Gather materials from stash.
- Iron, quick.
- Rip (not cut) strips of fabric.
- Stitch strips together while starting to sweat profusely.
- Use barely-acceptable-as-best letter embroidery function on sewing machine.
- Sew sew sew. I sewed batting to the backing then sewed the pieced front to the batting/batting (front to front). Turned right-side out, stitched the perimeter. Bam.
- At 12:30 exactly, clip threads, check for pins, and wrap the quilt.
- Shower, dress, get lost, be 1/2 hour late.
- Present quilt to the young and modern and stylish couple.
PS “Mustache” was the shower’s theme, due to the luxurious and oft-waxed mustache of the dad-to-be. In fact, my improv group gave him the nickname of “Mooshi” (short for moo-stachio). Hence: